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ISLAMABAD: Intelligence agencies submitted a written statement in the Supreme Court regarding the 11 prisoners, who had been missing from Adiyala jail since their acquittal on terrorism charges, on Friday.
A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, heard the case.
Advocate Raja Mohammad Irshad, the counsel for the Inter-Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence, submitted the statement and said he would share information regarding the case with the judges.
After examining the statement, the court postponed the hearing till the first week of January 2011 and suggested for the lawyer to meet the prisoners’ relatives.
The mystery of 11 prisoners was finally solved on Thursday when the ISI and the MI claimed that they had ‘recovered’ the men from terror camps and were now questioning them for masterminding terror campaigns after which they would be tried under the 1952 Army Act.
“These prisoners belong to a well-knit group of terrorists and were taken to their hideouts by persons disguised as spies in areas where the army is currently engaged in an operation against militants,” Advocate Irshad told the Supreme Court during Thursday’s hearing.
